Nurse Education Today
Volume 24, Issue 2 , Pages 128-135 , February 2004

Change in nursing students’ perceptions of nursing during their education: the role of the Introduction to Nursing course in this change

,Accepted 28 October 2003.

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Nurse Education Today
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